This year an estimated 130,000 new cases of colon and rectal cancer will be diagnosed, making it the fourth most common form of cancer in Americans. Colon cancer is the second leading cancer killer in the United States, second only to lung cancer in men, and breast cancer in women. And...
Excess gas in the digestive tract (esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and colon/large intestine) can come from two sources: 1) increased intake of gas, for example, from air swallowed; or 2) increased production of gas as certain undigested foods are broken down by harmless bacteria normall...
the bacteria that produce gas are limited to the colon. In some conditions, these bacteria spread back into the small intestine. When this bacterial spread occurs, food reaches the bacteria before it can be fully digested and absorbed by the small intestine. Therefore, the colonic-type bacteria ...
1996). We are now preparing for the clinical trial of an interventional study to prevent colon cancer with the use of perilla oil. We are also planning to examine the suppressive effect of perilla oil on the development of visceral adipose tissue in patients. ACKNOWLEDGMENT We are grateful to...
(3000 rpm) for at 25 °C for 10 min. The obtained serum was kept in sterile centrifuge tubes at −20 °C for biochemical detection. Upon dissection, the liver, spleen, kidney and colon of each mouse were weighed. The liver and cecal contents were quickly frozen in liquid nitrogen and...